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Word: palmful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decision in the bitterest legislative battle of a decade. In an instant, the Senate was in an uproar. Loudest voice in the tumult of shouts and laughter was Pennsylvania's Guffey, last-ditch supporter of the President's demand for more Justices, slamming his desk with the palm of his hand to get attention and crying, "Mr. President, Mr. President, I want to be recorded as voting against this Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 59 Minutes | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...with Limo's girl, Alicia, in her dirty cantina, but one day they got gav on tequila and were dumped in jail by the Spig soldiers. While Limo waited for the British Navy to come and chastise the Mexicans he taught Harry how to click dice in his palm without turning them over, how to roll them out just hard enough to turn over five times after hitting the blanket. "Being greedy," he advised, "has probably ruined more good scientists than anything else. And after all, what in hell difference does it make if it takes you a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Innocent at Sea | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...Miami, Fla., the Federal Government filed a tax lien against the Palm Island mansion of Mrs. Mae Capone, wife of imprisoned Gangster Al Capone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Conquistador Gold | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

First public notice of Montague's golf was written two years ago by famed Sportswriter Grantland Rice. Sportswriter Rice heard that Montague had, 1) played Crosby using a baseball bat, a rake and a shovel and beaten him, 2) broken the course record at Palm Springs four days in a row, with a 61 the last day, 3) picked a bird off a telegraph wire with a golf ball at 170 yards, 4) been called by onetime U. S. Amateur Champion George Von Elm, who had played with him daily for a month, the "greatest golfer in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mysterious Montague (Concl.) | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

Judge Yankwich, after hearing pretty Delight Jewett describe her experiences with Defendant Hunt in Beverly Hills, Pasadena, Palm Springs and Albuquerque, could not. Miss Jewett testified: "Mr. Hunt told me I was to be the mother of the new redeemer of the world. It was to be an immaculate conception." Judge Yankwich: "Who was to be the Holy Ghost?" Witness Jewett: "Mr. Hunt didn't say."* After several days of such maundering testimony, with Attorney MacBeth subpoenaing but not delivering Aimee Semple McPherson as an "expert"' witness, Defendant Hunt was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Immaculate Conception | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

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